Collection of ALEXIS SOUL-GRAY in a gallery layout

ALEXIS SOUL-GRAY

Alexis Soul-Gray (b. 1980, UK), lives and works in Devon. She earned an MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art, London (2023) and a BA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, London (2003). She is an alumni of The Royal Drawing School, London having completed the Postgraduate Drawing Year in 2007. Solo exhibitions include The Arts Club, London (2024); Bel Ami, LA (2023); Liminal Gallery, Margate (2023), Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (2022); Irving Contemporary, Oxford (2022); Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (2022); and Delphian Gallery, London (2021).


Recent group exhibitions include The Guts And The Glory, Bo Lee & Workman, Bruton (2024); Paper, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London (2023); Conscious Unconscious, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023); Women Celebrating Surrealism, Islington Arts Factory, London (2022); What Was lost, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (2022).

She was invited for an important residency at The Artist House Kadenowka, Rabka, Poland (Studio Paulina Olowska) in the summer of 2022; was the winner of the Delphian Open in 2021; and recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in both 2021 and 2022.

Soul-Gray's first monograph, Immutable Fragments, was published by Bel Ami LA in April 2024. Her work is featured in the permanent collection of Moderna Museum, Stockholm, and in private collections worldwide. 

ARTWORKS

EXHIBITIONS

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B. 1980, UK
Lives and works in Devon, UK

Education:

2021-2023 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007 MA Diploma ‘The Drawing Year’, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2006 QTS Qualified Teacher Status, The London Arts Consortium, UK
2003 BA Hons Visual Arts - Drawing, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
2000 Foundation Diploma, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK


Solo Exhibitions:

2023 Immutable Fragments, Bel Ami, Los Angeles
2023 Dancing in the Dark, Liminal Gallery, Margate
2022 Screen Memory, Wetterling gallery, Stockholm
2022 Come Dressed in Blue, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
2022 Straw Girl, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
2021 Love with no place to go, Delphian Gallery, London
2021 Blue Eyes, South Combe Barn, Devon
2021 No Place like Home, Liminal Gallery (online)
2011 Apparition, Islington Arts Factory, London
2004 Happy Birthday Alice, Firstsite (offsite) Colchester
2003 Transition, Lewisham ArtHouse, London


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2023 Paper, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London
2022 What Was lost, PAPER Gallery, Manchester
2022 Home, Regency Town Hall, Brighton
2022 Once Upon a Time, Flora Fairbairn & Co, London
2022 Drawn to Abstraction, Wonzimer Gallery, london
2022 WIP 22, Royal College of Art & Soho Revue London
2021, Whelm, Leicester Contemporary
2021 Origin, Delphian Gallery, London
2021 Delphian Open Call Winners Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London
2021 The Top 100, The Auction Collective, London
2021 Abracadabra, Gobstopper Gallery
2021 Imperfectionsim, Wonzimer, Los Angeles
2021 Works on Paper 3, Blue Shop Cottage, London
2020 Life on Venus, The Tub Gallery, London
2017 Tender Blues, Gerald Moore Gallery, London


Residencies:

2022 Artist House Kadenowka, Rabka, Poland (Studio Paulina Olowska)
2022 Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Devon
2019 Chenderit Visual Arts College, Oxfordshire
2004 Royal Air Force, Scotland


Teaching:

Lecturer, Art & Design Foundation Course, Totnes
Art Tutor, Devon County Council
Freelance Project Artist, Re-Future Collective arts project, Birmingham
Art teacher, Brandhall Primary School, Birmingham
Course Leader (short Courses) & Associate Lecturer, Foundation Art & Design, Oxford Brookes University
Associate Lecturer, Foundation Studies, Fine Art pathway, University of East London Artist in Residence, Chenderit Visual Arts College, Oxfordshire
Education Assistant, Horniman museum, London
Middlesex University (MODA), Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Education Officer - Primary Schools
The University of Hertfordshire, Visiting Tutor-Arts Award
The Royal Drawing School, London, Drawing Club Tutor
Thomas Tallis School & Kidbrooke School, Secondary Teacher of Art & Design (training) The Minories Art Gallery, freelance workshop leader
Tate Britain, Education Assistant/Art Trolley & Art Space leader


Grants/Awards:

2022 & 2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant – Painting & Drawing
2021 Overall Winner, Delphian Open Call
2007 The Ivor Braka First Prize, The Royal Drawing School
2003 ArtFresh2 Graduate Bursary, Minories Gallery, Colchester
Publications:

2022 The fourdrinier, review by Sara Makari Aghdam
2021 Venti Journal, ‘Senses’ Artist feature
2021 Revue Aristide no.6, Collectif Aristide, Switzerland
2021 MAMA (procreate Project) issue no 44
2014 Ways Of Drawing, Thames and Hudson

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